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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Carpenter and Clearwing Moths (Cossoidea) » Clearwing Moths (Sesiidae) » Sesiinae » Synanthedonini » Carmenta » Eupatorium Borer Moth - Hodges#2596 (Carmenta bassiformis)

Species Carmenta bassiformis - Eupatorium Borer Moth - Hodges#2596

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Looks like the Eupatorium borer moth - Carmenta bassiformis

Id help needed - clearwing moth - Carmenta bassiformis - male

Ironweed Clearwing Moth - Carmenta bassiformis

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Cossoidea (Carpenter and Clearwing Moths)

Family Sesiidae (Clearwing Moths)

Subfamily Sesiinae

Tribe Synanthedonini

Genus Carmenta

Species bassiformis (Eupatorium Borer Moth - Hodges#2596)

Hodges Number

2596

Other Common Names

Ironweed Clearwing Moth

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Carmenta bassiformis (Walker, 1856)

Aegeria bassiformis Walker, 1856

Trochilium bassiformis

Sesia bassiformis

* phylogenetic sequence #081100

Size

Wingspan: ♂ 18-21 mm, ♀ 18-26 mm. (1)

Range

Northeastern, southern and midwestern United States. (1)

Food

Larvae bore in the roots of New York ironweed (Vernonia noveboracensis, Asteraceae) and possibly sweetscented joe pye weed (Eutrochium purpureum, Asteraceae). (1)

Print References

Beuttenmüller, W. 1901. Monograph of the Sesiidae of America, north of Mexico. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 1(6): 284-285, pl.31, f.3, pl.33, f.4 (2)

Engelhardt, G.P. 1946. The North American Clear-wing Moths of the family Aegeriidae. USNM Bulletin 190: 62-65 (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Works Cited

1.	The North American Clear-wing Moths of the family Aegeriidae. George P. Engelhardt. 1946. United States National Museum Bulletin 190: 1-222, pl.1-32.

2.	Monograph of the Sesiidae of America, north of Mexico. William Beutenmüller. 1901. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 1(6): 218-352, pl.29-36.

Contributed by Jason D. Roberts on 15 June, 2007 - 1:22pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 20 June, 2013 - 5:06pm

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